Word: prefer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than 100,000,000 gallons of "green juice," for this year's crop was uncomfortably bumper. "Hitherto we have never attempted to market the 'green' product," said a spokesman for the French vintners last week, "but that was only because the buyers have always preferred that it be made into wine in France. If the Americans prefer, all our classic vintages can be shipped green, and, as they say, 'developed' in their homes...
...think that many members of Congress will prefer a special session of Congress to joining the army of unemployed,'' grunted Insurgent Senator Borah last week. He was being facetious, but he was touching upon the precise reason why Congressmen have refused five times in the past decade to pass the resolution of Senator Norris to abolish "lame duck" sessions. Congressmen are, more tenaciously than almost any other class of professional men, jobholders. That is why those whose states are losing seats fought so bitterly, and may fight again, the already long-delayed Reapportionment of the House...
...Paris last week "incognito and making a great effort to keep his whereabouts secret," correspondents sought out Governor George Leslie Harrison of the New York Federal Reserve Bank at his Paris hotel, asked bluntly, "Have you been conferring with Owen D. Young?" Said Governor Harrison frostily, "I prefer not to say. . . . I am simply talking over monetary affairs. . . . Of course gold is always one of our problems...
...theatre world to maintain itself since the advent of the talking movie. The coming of other vicarious amusements has made its problem more complex. The public was beginning to for get it. Boston audiences have never been particularly enthusiastic or acute. There are only a handful who prefer the legitimate parent to the illegitimate son. The ruck are either too dull to fathom the sensible, or too untutored to follow the trivial...
...books by Lawrence, "The Captain's Doll" and "The Lost Lady", and Huysmans' "Against the Grain" are the only fiction titles reported to be in great demand in reprint issues. This may indicate that so far as fiction is concerned college men prefer to keep up to the minute. Such a conclusion is backed up by the predominance of fiction in the following list of best-selling new books...